Example sentences of "in their [noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sceptics will scoff as usual but my informants are adamant in their accounts of the happenings . |
| 2 | Yet , if Ford and Carter were , to a significant extent , in the age of the ‘ post-imperial ’ presidency victims of circumstances beyond their control , their failures were also due , in part , to inadequacies in their approaches to the problems of presidential leadership . |
| 3 | It seems as if the Opposition flounder almost every day in their responses to the charges and questions that we put to them , and I very much hope that they will clarify their position on national insurance charges on high and not so high incomes — and on whether any increases will be phased in . |
| 4 | The survey was carried out in Leeds to compare the three race groups — Blacks , Asians and Whites — in their attitudes to the police and their experiences of them . |
| 5 | Firstly , they found from eight of the better designed studies that ‘ mothers of schizophrenics are more concerned , protective , and possibly more intrusive than control mothers both in the current situation and in their attitudes to the children before they showed signs of schizophrenia ’ . |
| 6 | And marriage beyond the frontiers of the West Frankish kingdom was seen as a preparatory step towards expansion by the counts of Flanders in their dealings with the houses of Hainault and Holland , by the ducal houses of Burgundy and Aquitaine in Aragon , Barcelona , and Navarre , and by the count of Toulouse in Provence . |
| 7 | Universally panned by the critics , the film fans who were already vanishing in their droves from the theatres by the mid-Sixties , were given further encouragement to stay away and heads rolled at Warners . |
| 8 | Investors spend considerable amounts of effort , time and money in their investigations into the firms behind the shares . |
| 9 | Well the money that we raised from there and also from another one was about three thousand nearly four thousand three thousand something and we presented er Tommy Cooper with the cheque on the Prince , the stage of the Prince of Wales Theatre , but that cheque was to buy a special ambulance for the children of Upshire , which is the home of the disabled and this special coach had erm places where you could wheel the children into the coach in their chairs with the clamps and those children that could be taken out of their chairs and put on seats put and had their belts put around them and that was the only way that these children were able to get out ! |
| 10 | They were sitting in their chairs behind the cameras . |
| 11 | While the political literati lay waste to vast tracts of newsprint in their musings about the causes of Labour 's failure , and the shortcomings of the political system that compounded it , those people who constitute what ought to be the bedrock of oppositional electoral support are becoming increasingly alienated not only from the Labour Party , but from the entire political process . |
| 12 | At first , the imperial authorities saw no danger in a Ukrainian cultural awakening and even thought it might assist them in their conflicts with the Poles . |
| 13 | the foresters attach likewise the good folk of their demesne woods and lands , and amerce them grievously ; and the small folk they attach at their homes and in their enclosures and in their crofts among the towns . |
| 14 | He said , ‘ We started with a brainstorming session where all members of the Department threw in their ideas on the areas which needed written procedures . |
| 15 | When normal people would have been lying in their beds with the covers over their heads , these MPs bounced on to our television screens debating the minutiae of the leadership election system . |
| 16 | As Dick Hebdige observes , the punks needed some support in their battles with the teds , since dressed in their bondage gear , the punks were no match for their more agile opponents . |
| 17 | in financial straits , from quaere ( Lat. ) meaning ‘ inquire ’ , a mark made by tradesmen in their ledgers against the names of customers whose solvency they doubted . |
| 18 | The Committee arranges the daily timetables , ensuring that all women are in the building by 8 pm. and in their bedrooms with the lights out at 10 p.m . |
| 19 | This opposition is mounted by a small but vocal group who persist in their objections despite the assurances on the safety of the plant given by a world renowned expert . |
| 20 | The library staff can serve an educational role in their explanations of the processes of library research , both by displayed expositions and by individual or group instruction . |
| 21 | Maxwell and Murdoch were no doubt entrenched in their organizations by the complexities of cross-holdings and foreign-registered companies , but their personal holdings were proportionately small , particularly in comparison with their predecessors . |
| 22 | Knocked quite a lot in their reviews in the papers . |
| 23 | CHARITY worker Rod Jones has urged Darlington ‘ godparents ’ to hand in their gifts for the children of Romania before the next convoy departs . |
| 24 | The undertaker selected four of them and they bent willingly to the coffin , easier in their minds about the embarrassments of grief , because now they had something they could do . |
| 25 | The Policemen submitted that … under the Vagrancy Act and the Liverpool Corporation Act , 1921 , enough suspicion was aroused in their minds by the actions of the two men to justify arrest . |
| 26 | For four days , Scott 's men stayed in their tents near the mountains . |
| 27 | At the IX Party Congress that year , both Ion Maurer and Alexandru Bârladeanu emphasized in their speeches to the delegates how much they owed to Nicolae Ceauşescu 's inspiration . |